National Geographic Travel Guide: Yosemite National Park
Awesome! The National Geographic Travel Guide: Yosemite National Park.
Millions of visitors come to Rhode Island-size Yosemite each year, most to the mile-wide (1.6-kilometer-wide) Yosemite Valley, which was cut by the Merced River and then enlarged by glaciers. Huge domes—notably El Capitan and Half Dome—and high peaks close in the valley, which makes up only one percent of the park. Hundreds of miles of hiking trails cross the green meadows and woodlands found across a roller coaster of different elevations. A great variety of wildlife is protected here, including black bears, mule deer, and hundreds of bird species. Today more than four million people visit the park every year, for rock climbing, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, camping, skiing, and snowshoeing.
For a little over 30 years now I've enjoyed hiking, backpacking, fishing, photographing and exploring Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. Yosemite Blog presents me with the opportunity to share, with you, the beauty and the grandeur of Yosemite and the High Sierra. Read the 